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Connecting Region

Connecting Region facilitates regional partnerships and coordination among legal and community-based service organizations.

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Connecting Region facilitates partnerships and coordination among legal and community-based service organizations at a regional level in order to ensure that clients, in particular clients who who do not speak English or French and/or people who live in rural or remote areas, receive continuous help as they address their legal issues.

Currently, Connecting Region consists of two initiatives:

Connecting OttawaConnecting Ottawa is a network of more than 50 community health, legal, immigration, disability, and social services agencies and community organizations. Its aim is to improve access to justice for Ottawa residents who speak neither English nor French or who have communication impairments. A local advisory group provides oversight and direction to Connecting Ottawa, led by South Ottawa Community Legal Services.

Connecting Rural RegionsStage one of potential two-stage granting was made available in 2018 to support projects that will facilitate groups of legal and community organizations to work together to coordinate and integrate their existing services to improve the delivery of legal information, referrals, and support to residents of a rural area. Four projects were funded. See the funding announcement to learn more.

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Nonprofit organizations in Ontario are able to apply to Connecting Region.

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The time period to apply for the second stage of granting in the Connecting Rural Regions granting will be announced at a later date. When a call for applications is open, details can be found through our Open call for applications webpage.

To see past calls, see our Closed call for applications list. Or, if you're looking for a specific past call, enter a keyword from the name of the call into our website's Search feature.

Connecting Region granting aims to increase access to legal services for the target populations and it is to test the benefits of a regional planning model to provide a coherent system to support people at every stage of the legal continuum.

As part of our commitment to understanding the impact of our grantmaking, we commissioned an evaluation of our Connecting Region program. The evaluation focused on the effectiveness of the Connecting Ottawa project and seed funding that was granted to three consortiums to develop a regional model. Here is a link to the report in PDF format: The Law Foundation of Ontario Connecting Region: Final Evaluation Report (2018).

Through our Connecting Region program, the Foundation recently granted $400K to support four projects that aim to coordinate and integrate legal information, services, and referrals in rural areas in Ontario.

Call for applications information and application form to apply to The Law Foundation of Ontario’s Connecting Rural Regions Call for Applications
Deadline: November 1, 2018
Grant amount: Stage 1 – up to $100K; Stage 2 – up to $250K

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